TARVA Trial Manager

Claire graduated from the University of Newcastle with a degree in Food and Human Nutrition in 2003 after spending a year on placement at the Centre for Public Health Nutrition Research at the University of Dundee.  Keen to pursue a career in research, she went on to coordinate a large randomised controlled trial in cervical cancer screening at the University of Manchester from 2004 - 2008.  In 2009 she obtained a Masters in Public Health from the University of Manchester.

After living abroad working as a teacher and volunteer in various education and sustainability themed projects, she returned to the UK in 2012 to work as Project Officer in a collaborative study between the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, and NHS Blood and Transplant, where she was heavily involved in developing recruitment strategies and day-to-day administration of a large study of blood donation frequency.    

Claire joined the UCL Clinical Trials Unit in December 2013 as Clinical Trial Manager for the TARVA trial, a pragmatic randomised controlled trial to evaluate the clinical and cost effectiveness of total ankle replacement compared to ankle arthrodesis in patients with end-stage ankle osteoarthritis.